Ghana Living Standards Survey 5+ 2008

Ghana, 2008

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GHA_2008_MCC-LSS_v01_M

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Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research

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Valid: 291871

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 10

End: 11

Width: 2

Range: -

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Value	Category
1	death of an adult working member
2	death of someone who sends remittances to the hhold
3	illness of income earning member of hhold
4	diasability of income earning member of the hhold
5	loss of an important contact
6	departure of income earning member due to seperation
7	departure of income earning member due to marriage
8	loss of job of income earning member
9	theft of crops before harvest
10	theft of harvested crops in storage
11	theft of cash
12	theft of livestock
13	theft of business stocks
14	theft of other property
15	destruction of harvest by fire
16	poor rains that caused harvest failure
17	flooding that caused harvest failure
18	pest invasion that caused harvest failure
19	pest that caused storage loss
20	plant disease that caused harvest failure
21	loss of property due to fire
22	loss of property due to flooding
23	loss of property due to riots
24	death of of livestock due to drought
25	death of livestock due to illness
26	increase in price of inputs
27	fall in the prices of output
28	increase in price of major food items consumed
29	increase in the price of water/electricity
30	increase in the price of petroleum products
31	accidents that resulted in property loss
32	other 1
33	other 2
34	other 3
35	other 4
36	other 5

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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